Abstract Our work as educators does not match the scope, scale, and urgency of the challenges we presently face and that our descendants will confront through the centuries of the “long emergency.” There are many reasons for this, but most important is our tendency to overlook the hard reality that the use and disposition of land, air, water, forests, oceans, minerals, energy, and atmosphere are inevitably political having to do with “who gets what when and how.” In other words, we do not have an environmental crisis as much as massive failure of political institutions and governments to foresee and forestall what has grown into the “long emergency.”

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环境教育中的民主和（缺失的）政治

摘要 我们作为教育工作者的工作与我们目前面临的挑战的范围、规模和紧迫性不匹配，我们的后代将在几个世纪的“长期紧急情况”中面临这些挑战。造成这种情况的原因有很多，但最重要的是我们倾向于忽视一个严酷的现实，即土地、空气、水、森林、海洋、矿产、能源和大气的使用和处置不可避免地与“谁得到什么时间和方式。” 换句话说，我们没有像政治机构和政府在预见和预防已经发展为“长期紧急情况”方面的大规模失败那样发生环境危机。